Erinnerungen an ein halbes Jahrhundert deutscher Meeresforschung

• Main Author: Hempel, Gotthilf
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German
• Published: Oceanum Verlag 2018
• Subjects: Alfred Wegener Institute
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/43508/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/43508/1/Hempel.pdf; http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57922-4

As founding director of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, as well as the Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology in Bremen, the author has made a significant contribution towards the development of Bremen/Bremerhaven as a scientific research location. As an observer and co-creator of German marine research in the past decades, the author describes from a biographical point of view the development of institutes and cooperations as well as the deployment of research ships from the 1950s into the new millennium.